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Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists confronts the mortality we all must face but also appeals to the desire to believe in something greater than ourselves, the magic within humanity. Themes addressed in this book include fate, family, happiness and free-will. How I discovered this book:  I ran across this book by seeking out new releases for January and read the blurb and it sounded compelling. Plot:  The four Gold children seek out the predictions of a fortune-teller that has the reputation of…

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This week the Top Ten Tuesday theme is favorite quotations. Here is a smattering of favorites I’ve highlighted and found clever or they have the ability to take me back to the time when I was reading these 5 star books.   “When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone’s ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but to impart a different kind of knowledge, an expanded sense of possibility. The point is not…

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Renée Watson’s Piecing Me Together is both timely and timeless in demonstrating the dance of adolescence into young adulthood.  Themes within Piecing Me Together encompass race, gender & privilege;  but at the heart of it, this is a book about friendship, community and resilience.   Watson turns stereotypes around and has characters that are not the easiest to like but fully developed. How I found this book: I found this book shortly after finishing The Hate U Give and I Am Not Your…

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Week of 2/18/18-2/24/18 Weekly Book Round-Up This is a weekly installment of bookish happenings across the collective book community.    Podcasts:  Overdue Podcast  This week Andrew and Craig discuss 2016 Hugo Winner:  The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin I love the format of Overdue – it’s as if you are listening to a couple friends about the books they are reading. Discussion and discourse always add that extra nudge when deciding if you want to read the title in question…

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Week of 2/25/18-3/3/18 Weekly Book Round-Up New Release: This week A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey was released in the United States. Book Blurb courtesy of author’s website: Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show…

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I discovered booktube late in 2017.  If you haven’t heard of booktube or want to know more, check out my guide on finding the best creators and content  Discovering Booktube  Since discovering this platform my to-be-read list has doubled and my reading time has evaporated! When I first started watching these videos – I would watch whatever popped up based on the YouTube algorithms.  Now, I have found several channels that are my go-to for certain genres.  When diving into booktube,…

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If you want to cozy up with a romantic read or watch a movie while ordering in take-out for Valentine’s here are some selections of made-to-movie love stories.